Auto Express – 1,390bhp Nissan GT-R drift car – Video

 

A month or two back the car you are looking set a new world record for high speed drifting. On a smooth, extremely wide runway in Dubai, with a Japanese gentleman called Masato Kawabata at the wheel, this highly modified, half-a-million-pound Nissan GT-R travelled for some 50 metres going completely sideways – at a measured angle of over 30 degrees from dead ahead – at an average speed of just over 190mph. Which, you will surely agree, is utterly and heroically insane.

What is arguably even more ridiculous, however, is that Nissan has allowed a small selection of fruitcake car journalists to drive this most extraordinary of GT-Rs with a bit of tutoring from Darren McNamara. Not only that, they also allowed our man Steve Sutcliffe to drift it down a runway…